Majorities of American voters say their family will be worse off under the Affordable Care Act, and think it would be better to go back to the pre-ObamaCare health care system.

A Fox News poll released Wednesday finds that while 26 percent of voters say their health care situation will be better under the new law, twice as many -- 53 percent -- say it will be worse. Another 13 percent say it wont make a difference.

Almost all Republicans (85 percent) and just over half of independents (51 percent) say they will be worse off under ObamaCare. Nearly half of Democrats expect to be better off (48 percent), while about one-quarter believe they will be worse off (24 percent).

Majorities of American voters say their family will be worse off under the Affordable Care Act, and think it would be better to go back to the pre-ObamaCare health care system.

Actually, what would be better would be to return the business to it's pre-goobermint-intervention state, which would go back almost a century.

The failing of the pre-ACA system that Dumb-as-craps lamented were real, but they weren't the result of an unfettered, UNDER-regulated free market as they were selling it. They were the result of the PREVIOUS round of government meddling, which can be laid at the feed of the PREVIOUS round, and so on ad nauseum (pretty literally).

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posted on 05/23/2013 11:39:20 AM PDT
by Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)

Obamacare will never be repealed. We missed our chance when we failed to elect RINO Romney. We never really had a chance to elect Romney as we are beginning to learn. The Nazi tactics of the Obama Administration saw to it that the election would be stolen no matter what.

My company’s premiums (which I have to pay personally, since I am a partner) have gone up 76% since Obamacare passed. My family coverage premium has gone from $19,000/year to over $27,000/year, which means by the time it takes effect I will also be hit by the 40% excise penalty tax (”Cadillac Tax”).

Not gonna happen. Some parts of it have too much popular appeal. I think instead we will see an acceleration to single payer, especially as employers become more active at trying to avoid dealing with it at all, ie going with more part time jobs and such. Pandora’s box is already open and I don’t see any way to close it.

Indeed. Let it get ugly. Let 0bamacare get ‘all up in people’s grills’. Bring it on. Send me another form, asking me if I buy Big Gulps. Let it get ugly, then exploit the F out of it so the Repubs can grow the House and get the Senate back.

But there is no doubt we’d be in better shape, at least economically, if Romney would’ve won. Too bad the rat in the WH was running all sorts of illegal interference during the election. He should be in jail for the ‘ops’ he was running during the election.

“To buy what you want, from whom you want. Or to not buy at all, if you so choose.”

That’s fine, but what about the hospitals, doctors, nurses, et al who are forced by law to provide services to everyone? That is the problem that was created by government, and Obamacare is government’s “solution” to the problem they created.

what about the hospitals, doctors, nurses, et al who are forced by law to provide services to everyone? That is the problem that was created by government, and Obamacare is governments solution to the problem they created.

Exactly right. Forcing them to serve everyone is a huge government assault on freedom.

A free society would best enable us to volunteer and donate to help our fellow citizens who are unable to pay for medical needs.

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posted on 05/23/2013 12:45:40 PM PDT
by repentant_pundit
(Sammy's your uncle, but he behaves like a spoiled rotten kid.)

Osama Obama's ultimate dream for the country is CanadaCare...I've seen the interview where he says that.In Canada there are major heart operations which,under official government guidelines,have an allowable wait time of 6 months (I saw that on an official Canadian government healthcare website).At the large hospital where I worked (for 20 years) a patient who urgently needed heart surgery waited minutes and those who needed non urgent procedures (not all heart operations are of an "emergency" nature) could have it done within a few days at most.

Just research the Canadian and British newspapers to see how many people there wait months for heart surgery,for an appointment with an oncologist or for a hip replacement or a cataract operation.

Given that at least half...and probably more like two-thirds...of this nation's Rat voters are layabout parasites it's not surprising that half of them would think they'd be better off.

It's kinda like Medicaid here in Massachusetts.A long time ago it was decided that those recipients (a huge percentage of whom are worthless parasites) would receive infertility benefits under the state's plan.When some people expressed disapproval the Rats' response was "well,we can't have a two tier health system with the most vulnerable among us getting the inferior plan.That would be racist".

Majorities of American voters say their family will be worse off under the Affordable Care Act, and think it would be better to go back to the pre-ObamaCare health care system.

And the real effects of Obamacare haven't even been felt yet. Wait until October when all the insurance exchanges are supposed to be in effect (and there will be utter chaos instead). And when the masses who thought voting for Obama would give them free medical - and instead they will be paying through the nose for insurance with a huge deductible and copays.

Many on the Left have long pushed for “direct democracy” (public referendum votes on laws) in place of representative republican government. Something tells me that they’ll stop squawking about it now.

Yep. The majority of Obamacare supporters either haven’t figured out that it’s mandatory and they have to pay for it, or still think it’ll be a lot cheaper than their current costs. In California, they’re just barely getting their exposure to the reality of it. Somewhere around October it’ll finally show up on the LIV’s radar. Then the fun starts!

Most people think that it’s the big corporations, the oil companies, their utilities, their employers that are screwing them, and don’t ever think that the gummint can screw them as badly as Obamacare will. SURPRISE!

California came out with some preliminary fees this week that weren’t quite in that range, but they had this charming little provision that indexes not only the premium subsidy, but the actual benefits to your income. For a given plan, those who’ve spent productive lives will be charged from 2 to 10 times more in co-pays. The pharmacist will need to know your income range in order to compute how much your prescription will cost.

“Indeed. Let it get ugly. Let 0bamacare get all up in peoples grills. Bring it on. Send me another form, asking me if I buy Big Gulps. Let it get ugly, then exploit the F out of it so the Repubs can grow the House and get the Senate back.”

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